Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?

--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > Torquoise is a fancy name for bluish greens and
> greenish blues. Beige
> > is a species  of brown. Aqua is Latin for water -
> I'm not even sure
> > what colour it's supposed to refer to.
>
> "Aqua" is short for "aquamarine" and is similar to
> turquoise: the color
> whose focus is in the overlap between blue and
> green.
>
> There's a notorious stereotype that women are more
> discriminating in
> color names than men, at least among anglophones
> (possibly reinforced by
> the much higher rate of red-green color-blindness
> among men).  My wife,
> for example, insists that aqua is no more a kind of
> blue (or green)
> than orange is a kind of red (or yellow)
>
I insist likewise.  Aqua is most assuredly neither
fish nor fowl.  To me it is a distinct area of the
spectrum.  As a child I wondered why no one ever nemed
the clearly visible aqua stripe in a rainbow, yet
eveyone insisted there were two purple stripes which
they named violet and indigo.

Oh, and to me "aquamarine" is a specific shade of aqua
near to its focal point but a little paler and slitly
shifted toward the blue side of the spectrum from
focal aqua.

Adam

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